[ SECRET POST #2861 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2861 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

05. http://i.imgur.com/2B9xZ6e.png

[(Anonymous)]

Good for you I guess?

[ex_mek82]

You should really meet the OP of #9, in that case!

[nanslice]

What fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

Does seeing PDAs in real life bother you?

[(Anonymous)]

I doubt it -- she said real-life romance is awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of people find PDAs kind of cringe-inducing who aren't the sort of curmudgeons who begrudge anyone real-life romance.

There's thinking romance is cool, and then there's being comfortable with the almost-voyeuristic role you're thrust into when people are being incredibly demonstrative. They're very different things, and a lot of romantic scenes in movies and television can induce the latter sort of discomfort.

[(Anonymous)]

I think real-life romance is awesome, but PDA's gross the hell out of me.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on the PDA. Hand holding, cuddling, light kissing, all of those are fine. Serious hot and heavy makeouts I tend to feel a little uncomfortable. I think that's pretty normal though.

[kallanda_lee]

I don't really like romance if it's the center of the story, unless it's fanfic and only very specific pairs. Mostly it's okay for me in media as long as it's not the main thing the story hinges on.

Agreed on movies

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of agree on movies. TV shows I'm more flexible with but with movies they almost never have enough time to develop the relationship to the point where I can care.

That's not to say that I don't enjoy shipping the characters in fanfic (where there's a chance for long and lengthy development) but almost all movie romances are awful (in my opinion).

[intrigueing]

Huh, I'm sort of the opposite -- I like romance in movies/TV a lot more than romance in books or in music. I think live action format captures the "feel" of romance best, since romance is such a subjective sort of feeling.

[brooms]

same. not "a lot more than", but definitely more. there's a lot of physical subtlety in romance that is better conveyed through good acting than through good writing.

[dreemyweird]

Ugh, my sympathies, OP. I've just had to unfollow a person because they kept spamming my dash with stuff related to a non-canonical het pairing in which characters A and B are canonically good friends. YKINMK, but if there is one thing that drives me up the wall! For once we get a canonical M&F friendship on TV and the shippers immediately turn it into yet another bland love story.

[(Anonymous)]

You are the last person I expect to use a GSNK reaction face.

[dreemyweird]

(you're not wrong! I haven't even bothered to research the canon, let alone give it a go. It's just that she looks so much like my RL self - or my younger RL self, at any rate - that I can't help wanting to use pics of her).

[(Anonymous)]

At least half same here.

I love romance as a concept. All my fav songs are love songs. I read so many romance novels. I'm a romantic at heart.

But movies/TV (that aren't romantic in nature) LEAVE THE ROMANCE OUT.

What I mean by that is movies/tv where the romance isn't a major part. Like romantic comedy/romance movies (I eat them up like a spoon) or more dramatic ensemble shows like Parenthood, Nashville, teen dramas.. etc. Romcom/shoujo anime, sports anime like Baby Steps where romance is a big thing don't count.

I mean like action/superhero movies, procedural cop shows, lawyer shows, plotty/action shounen anime, sports anime, etc. I know that there's occurrences where the romance is well-written with a good build up, but most of them seem just so "mandatory" and predictable. Just because a man and a woman work together or are in close proximity, romance needs to form apparently. And a male and a female can't be best friends without some form of romantic entanglement from at least one of them. (Thinking anime)

Oh, a man and a woman team up in the pilot of a procedural show. You know where that's headed.
A sports team with a female manager - one of the players needs to develop a crush on her, you know? It's mandatory.
A superhero/(or shounen anime protag) needs to have a girlfriend or a crush, so he can protect her and she can be kidnapped by the bad guys!

So it's not really the romance itself, but the way they do it. The execution, the pairings they choose. (Oh these two characters work together and they're man and woman - we need to hook them up! (NICS and other procedurals)) Just because.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP but yeah, this. I'm sooo tired of [primary male character] and [primary female character] inevitably getting together in tv shows. I'm so tired of will they or won't they romance. I'm so tired of how utterly predictable TV romance always, always is, to that point that I've literally dropped shows over it.

I really wish we could get something surprising! Or just leave romance out of most shows all together.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

When the romantic elements are that predictable, badly-executed and forced into the storyline (that could have played out exactly the same way without it) just for the sake of it, I'd much prefer it was left out too.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep.

The problem is that such romances are often so interchangeable. You could transplant them from one setting to another or from one couple to another and it would make no difference.

The worst part is that I feel like the female characters get shafted because they all get written into the same, boring, generic love interest slot instead of interesting members of the team.

[(Anonymous)]

it's strange to me that you're averse to the stereotypical trope-y way romance is handled in tv/movies but love it in books. if a book and a tv show did the same plot the same way, why does the tv show bother you more than the book? what exactly is causing this negative reaction? it's not the trope, it's the medium, but you're not actually exploring that aspect of it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the last person to tell you that you need to like romance, but you'd probably be happier if tiny bits of it didn't completely sour you on things you otherwise like. I suggest trying to dig into the reasons for your reactions, and see if you can get it under control.

[dreemyweird]

This is actually a pretty sound advice. It's weird that you enjoy romance in other media but not in TV shows/films, and there probably are some reasons for this that you are not aware of.

[(Anonymous)]

I get tired of that kind of shit, too, but if I was happily married, I wouldn't complain- that's probably their safe way to experience romance if they are not as fortunate as you in rl.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm happily married as well. And I completely agree.